As musicians we understand that repeated study of your instrument and its various techniques is a necessity if we wish to master it. That being said, we are often told to “practice”, and yet no one really tells us exactly how to do that.
For me, I have finally realized that if I am not in my music room, my practice will consist of playing songs that I really don’t have to learn and that don’t challenge me at all. I call it “mindless noodling”. ...